109 – How could you (yes) do this to me (2)
Kyle’s roar echoes through the quiet dorm.
People who live nearby open the door and stick their heads out, wanting to fight, and some of them get irritated because their sleep is disturbed.
Normally, Kyle would have backed down after paying attention to them, but today she was different.
He wasn’t even aware of the other people’s eyes, and he was only looking at Lucy, who shrank at the sight of him for the first time.
Like a zombie, Lucy stretched out her hand as if telling Kyle not to approach Kyle, who trudged toward her without waving her arms.
Kyle stared at the hand and smiled.
“What is it? Are you telling me not to come near me anymore?”
“Kyle, you are weird.”
Kyle grabbed the hand and put it aside, shaking his head.
Tears rolled down his cheeks and fell to the floor.
“You are the strange one, Lucy. I don’t think you’re the one I used to know. The you I know was the one who always took my side and always smiled brightly. But now you are different. What is that look on my face It’s like seeing Adele in the past. What did i do to you Why are you doing that?”
Lucy, who kept backing away, bumped into a wall.
She had no place to hold her back, but Kyle was still moving towards her.
And bang! Kyle put his hand on the wall, blocking Lucy from going.
“Yes. What did Adele do to you? Because he’s a guy who doesn’t care about means and methods, he touched your memory with magic. Yes?”
“Adele didn’t do anything.”
“… ….”
Lucy’s denial made Kyle stop her tears and straighten up.
It was terrifying to suddenly change his expression as if he were not human.
Lucy couldn’t bear to look at Kyle like that, but she forced herself to make eye contact with him and conveyed her thoughts straight.
“Let’s go back today. You are so excited.”
“…… No. I can’t open my eyes to see you with Adele.”
Kyle, who tried to separate Lucy from Adele’s side by citing other reasons, admitted she candidly.
The reason he tells Lucy not to hang out with Adele is because of his personal feelings.
“What are you? What are you doing? He didn’t pay attention when he was with other girls, so why? Was it too much to give to others?”
Kyle couldn’t make excuses for her even though her heart seemed to be torn apart by Lucy’s words, which were rarely sharp and resolute toward herself.
She said, to be honest, it was true that she couldn’t pay attention to Lucy because there were women who were actively attached to her.
“And what if you can’t see it? No matter how much you and I are like family, that family has no right to interfere with who I go out with. So go back Cool her head while sleeping.”
“… ….”
Kyle, pushed helplessly by Lucy’s hand pushing her, lowered her head and stared at her for a long time.
She then turned around in silence and she headed out of the room on her feet.
She stumbled as if she was about to collapse at any moment, as if shocked by Lucy’s attitude she had never seen before.
“… ….”
The last thing that catches Kyle’s eyes when she turns around is Lucy, who is just staring at her coldly to see if she is going straight outside.
I hoped in my heart that Lucy, who was weak-minded, would feel sorry or regretful and hold on to herself, but it was the opposite of that.
Only then did Kyle leave her room without hesitation, and Lucy closed the front door.
It was as if Lucy’s figure through the crack in her door was gradually disappearing, as if she had closed the door in her heart towards herself.
Kung.
When the door closed, Kyle leaned against it and slid down her legs as if her legs were failing.
She crouched down on the floor feeling the cold air between her two knees and put her head down between them.
Her eyes, already swollen once, turned red again and transparent tears flowed.
The students who had only stuck her head out into the hallway at Kyle’s roar saw him and recognized that he was a car, so they went back into the room as if they had seen everything to see.
There was only a small sob in the hallway where the silence came.
“… ….”
I could hear those sobs as much as Lucy, who stood still, unable to take her hand off the doorknob even after closing her door.
The future Lucy came out of hiding as if the situation was over and asked.
“Do you regret it?”
Lucy thought for a moment, but shook her head.
I replied with a bitter smile.
“Kyle is no longer my child to take care of.”
With that, Lucy released his hand from the grip he was holding on to.
She returned to the living room and sat down on the sofa, trying hard not to hear the faint sound of crying in her ears.
Clinging tightly to her cushion, she fiddled with the brooch she was given.
I have no regrets about my choice today.
* * *
Smart.
“Boss, can I go in?”
She went to Adele’s room to avoid getting up early in the morning for some reason. Charlotte waited for her answer.
She waited for so long she stood in front of the door and she answered in a small voice.
“…… Come in.”
It wasn’t because the pitch of his voice was low as usual, but because his voice itself was low, it was hard to hear.
How come the tone of her voice is different from usual? She wondered if she had a sore throat, so she opened the door with concern.
Entering her room, Charlotte saw Adele sitting on her bed and widened her eyes.
“Boss…… ?”
Adele got smaller.
Her usual nightgowns didn’t fit her body and fell down, exposing her slender shoulders, her arms so short that her sleeves flared out.
She was rubbing her eyes with a dreamy expression, like a child of her age who had been sleeping for a long time.
“What does that look like… ….”
“It’s Raviel’s doing. He said that if you act like this, your anger will be relieved. I mean, it sounds like a crazy idea.”
“Did you force it?”
“Well, half forced and half voluntary. Because I couldn’t think of any other number.”
“I see, I see.”
She hoped it was her dream, but Charlotte, who had been watching her sighing Adele as she still saw her reality, her younger self, moved her steps towards her bed as if possessed.
Then she sat on the bed and flinched as if her body wasn’t listening.
Adele raised her head, wondering about this.
“Charlotte?”
“Does that mean that you, too, have been prepared to some degree?”
Charlotte’s eyes were spinning.
Similar to Tina and Anastasia’s look at him.
Remembering yesterday’s humiliation, Adele gradually felt ominous, but it was already too late.
“So cute…… !”
She said it was because Charlotte, who couldn’t stand it, had already run over him, hugging him tightly.
Looking at her screaming and rubbing her cheeks, it was clear that she was better than Tina or Anastasia, but not inferior.
“I thought he was a person who said useless things, but I guess there are times when he is so helpful.”
She knew very well how Charlotte felt about Raviel.
Now it seems that Bonnie La Viel did this to raise her self-esteem after hitting her rock bottom.
Adele’s eyes were blank as she was hugged, thinking about this and that.
“How long does it last?”
“I don’t know exactly, but they say today will last forever.”
“Is that so?”
She was full of anticipation that she didn’t know was the cause of Charlotte’s eyes looking at her.
Forward……
She was afraid because she had no idea what would happen to her from Charlotte.
She was afraid that she would trample on her dignity in a way worse than Tina or Anastasia.
“Let’s go have breakfast first.”
Soup and bread were simply prepared on the table.
The breakfast table was the same as usual, but if there was anything different, it would be Charlotte sitting next to her.
Adele put the spoon down because it was too much of a burden to sit in her calyx position and stare at her eating.
“Looking at it like that, I feel like I’m going to get sick.”
“I think I’ll pretend, won’t I?”
“… ….”
Adele flinched as her PTSD came on.
It was because I remembered what Anastasia had ordered me to do last night.
She was caught by Tina and couldn’t come down, so her words of “Please let me down”, Which she repeated in honorifics, lingered in her ears.
She creaked and turned her head to see Charlotte twisting her fingers through her hair to see if she had anything more to say.
“Hey, boy. If that’s what you’re doing, there’s something I’d like to do more of.”
“I didn’t say I did?”
“It reminds me of my childhood, which disappeared while taking care of the young boy who suddenly became a tyrant.”
From noble mtl dot com
Her shame and regret, which had been balanced on the scale, tilted to one side.
Of course she was sorry.
It was time for her to earnestly pay off the karma accumulated by Adele.
“…… What…… Yo. This.”
Charlotte was silent for a moment, as if chewing on Adele’s honorific words she spat out bluntly.
“I wanted you to call me noona. Now that she has grown young, shouldn’t she use appropriate titles?”
“… ….”
With Adele hesitantly silent, Charlotte was worried that her soup would get cold during the long meal, so she took the spoon Adele had put down and scooped up the soup, which she held in front of his mouth.
“Come on, young boy. Oh, do it.”
It was Adele, who only moved her eyes and looked at the colonel’s soup in front of his mouth.
She’d had Charlotte serve her meals before, when she lost the use of her arms, but it wasn’t like that.
At that time, it was a really unavoidable situation, so if she had the feeling that Charlotte was helping her, now, should I say that Charlotte’s black heart can be seen in this small act.
It was said that it was an act to thoroughly treat Adele as her child.
“Ah, the shoulders hit by the tyrannical youngster when I was young are aching, and I think it will be difficult to hold them up. Hurry up, please do it.”
But even though she knew all that, she had to endure her shame now that Charlotte was here.
Compared to the pain Charlotte has been through, her shame is nothing.
“…… Ah… ….”
Adele’s mouth opened so slowly.
As if she had been waiting for that moment, the spoon came in easily.
Adele gulped down the soup without giving her time to savor it.
“Is it delicious?”
And, unable to win over Charlotte’s eyes full of expectations, he did not forget to add the words she wanted.
“…… Yes. Who…… Sister… ….”
I couldn’t raise my head in shame as a grown adult tried to act in a high tone unique to a child.